Repository Tools

See how complete your repository’s metadata are — then improve them.

Seven free, browser-based tools from Metadata Game Changers that measure the completeness, connectivity, and curation history of any DataCite repository against live data — and turn what they find into action, matching the people and organizations in your metadata to the ORCID and ROR identifiers that connect research together.

100% in your browser — nothing uploaded, no login Live data from DataCite, ROR, and ORCID APIs Works with any of DataCite’s 3,500+ repositories Open — CC BY-NC 4.0, source on GitHub
New here? · For repository managers

Repository Guide

A hands-on first session with your own repository — measure, drill down, retrieve identifiers, re-curate — end to end.

Running a program? · For consortium leaders

Consortium Guide

Find your bright spots, learn from them, and spread their practices across your membership — with a PDF to share with members.

Watch · Trends

Repository History

Scores a repository’s metadata completeness for each registered year and plots how it evolves — as line trends, a grid of radar plots, or an animated movie.

  • Completeness trends by registered year, cohort by cohort
  • Radar-grid and movie views of the use-case profiles
  • Send any year’s sample to Completeness or Connectivity
Measure · FAIR and Projects

Metadata Completeness

Measures metadata completeness using the MGC FAIR and Project use cases — one concept at a time.

  • Concept-by-concept completeness with drill-downs to see real values
  • HTML / PDF / JSON reports for sharing and future analysis
  • Filter by resource type, query, or random sample
Measure · Identifiers

Metadata Connectivity

Measures how well creators, contributors, funders, publishers, and rights carry the identifiers that connect them — and finds quick wins.

  • ORCID, ROR, funder, publisher, and rights coverage at a glance
  • Drill-downs list every unidentified name — quick wins first
  • One click sends them to the ROR / ORCID Retrievers with tabular data reports
Watch · Activity

Repository Activity

Explore repository complete curation activity over time — creates, updates, and publishes — to demonstrate and understand active collection curation.

  • Activity timelines for any DataCite repository
  • Compare curation effort across collections and years
Watch · Curation

Re-Curation Watch

Browses a repository’s most recent updates — or the full curation history of a single DOI — to see re-curation as it happens.

  • Version-by-version changes for any DataCite DOI
  • Spot metadata improvements (and regressions) over time
  • Make your invisible metadata curation work visible
Retrieve · Organizations

ROR Retriever

Matches affiliation, funder, and publisher names to ROR identifiers using the same affiliation-matching strategies DataCite, Crossref, and ROR use.

  • Careful algorithmic matching first, full query search as fallback
  • Color-coded confidence with full candidate details
  • CSV results ready for analysis and re-curation
Retrieve · People

ORCID Retriever

Finds ORCID iDs for lists of people, showing each candidate’s most recent employment and journal so the right person is easy to pick.

  • Handles “First Last” and “Last, First” name forms
  • Built-in disambiguation for common names
  • CSV results ready for analysis and re-curation
The tools work as a pipeline. Measure a repository’s completeness and connectivity drill down to the specific people and organizations missing identifiers retrieve their RORs and ORCIDs with one click re-curate your metadata and watch the completeness improve. Every hand-off carries its context, so you always know which dataset you are improving. The Repository Guide walks you through the whole loop — and the Consortium Guide shows how to run it across a membership.
Try them now — no install, no account: metadata-game-changers.github.io/recuration-watch/completeness.html
Questions, ideas, or a repository you’d like help with? Contact Metadata Game Changers — Better Documentation | Better Data | Better Science.
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